General Quiz

Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-06 00:26:00

Hi bobbym,

The answer #2729 is correct. Well done!

#2731. What is the instrument for measuring a property of light, especially luminous intensity or flux?

bobbym · 2011-10-06 00:41:19

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Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-07 00:04:00

Hi bobbym,

The answer is the same one you had. Well done!

#2732. Name the French chemist whose persistence in precise experiments led to the law of conservation of mass.

#2733. Name the British surgeon who became the first doctor to use an antiseptic during surgery on 1865.

bobbym · 2011-10-07 00:09:57

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Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-07 00:34:17

Hi bobbym,

The answers #2732 and #2733 are correct. Excellent!
(However, the answer #2733 is Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister).

#2734. What does 'Alma mater' mean?

bobbym · 2011-10-07 00:43:20

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Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-08 01:20:36

Hi bobbym,

[hide=Alma mater]1. The school, college, or university that one has attended.
2. The anthem of an institution of higher learning.

[From Latin Alma Māter, nourishing mother (epithet of certain goddesses) : alma, feminine of almus, nourishing + māter, mother;]

#2735. Mosaic Gold is an ore of which metal?

#2736. Litharge is in ore of which metal?

bobbym · 2011-10-08 01:24:50

Hi;

Thanks for the information.

Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-09 00:41:41

Hi bobbym,

The answer #2736 is correct. Good work!

#2737. What is 'Diphtheria'?

#2738. What is 'Dielectric'?

bobbym · 2011-10-09 00:50:41

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Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-10 00:40:28

Hi bobbym,

Good work, bobbym!

#2739. What does the acronym 'PETA' signify?

#2740. What does the abbreviation 'RSVP' signify?

bobbym · 2011-10-10 01:13:53

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Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-10 23:09:13

Hi bobbym,

The answer #2739 is perfect. Well done!

#2741. In Genetics, what is 'Mutation'?

#2742. In Genetics, what is 'Hybrid'?

bobbym · 2011-10-11 00:58:05

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Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-11 23:55:19

Hi bobbym,

The answers #2741 and #2742 are correct. Good work!

#2743. Name the Hungarian-British physicist and electronics engineer best known for his discovery of the principles of holography, for which he received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971.

#2744. Name the Italian scientist whose work in the 17th century helped unlock many secrets of astronomy and natural motion.

bobbym · 2011-10-12 00:06:50

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Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-12 00:30:26

Hi bobbym,

The

The answer #2744 is perfect. Well done!

#2745. Name the Scottish chemist known as 'Father of Colloidal Chemistry'. (who became professor of chemistry at Glasgow University in 1830, moving to University College, London, in 1837. His 1829 paper on gaseous diffusion introduced Graham's law. He went on to study diffusion in liquids, leading in 1861 to the definition of colloids)

bobbym · 2011-10-12 00:40:14

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Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-12 23:48:49

Hi bobbym,

The answer #2745 is correct. Excellent!

#2746. What is the capital city of Uruguay?

#2747. What is the capital city of Paraguay?

bobbym · 2011-10-12 23:52:02

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Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-14 21:18:16

Hi bobbym,

The answer #2746 is correct. Good work!

The

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#2748. Name the mystic philosopher of ancient China, best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching (often simply referred to as Laozi).

#2749. Name the French physicist and mathematician who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by summarizing and extending the work of his predecessors in his five-volume Traité de Mécanique Céleste (Treaty on Celestial Mechanics), published from 1799 to 1825.

bobbym · 2011-10-15 00:07:22

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Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-15 22:22:46

Hi bobbym,

The answers #2748 and #2749 are correct. Excellent!

#2750. Which country has the land area of 8,514,877 square kilometers?

#2751. Which country has the land area of 7,617,930 square kilometers?

bobbym · 2011-10-16 00:34:38

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Jai Ganesh · 2011-10-16 21:43:51

Hi bobbym,

#2752. Who said 'Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance'?

#2753. When is the 'Independence Day' in India?

#2754. When is the 'Republic Day' in India?

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